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System of housing and management of Kanni Adu goats of southern Tamil Nadu

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Title System of housing and management of Kanni Adu goats of southern Tamil Nadu
 
Creator Thiruvenkadan, A K
Panneerselvam, S
Kandasamy, Kandasamy
 
Subject Goats; Husbandry practices; Kanni Adu
 
Description A study on Kanni Adu goats of south Tamil Nadu was carried out in 154 households of 35 villages with the objective of identifying and documenting the rearing practices followed in the home tract. The study revealed that Kanni Adu goats were reared extensively as a herded group and housed only during the nights. The housing pattern consisted of open pens, half-open sheds and closed sheds. The pens/sheds were located nearer the dwelling of the goat owners or formed part of their residence. Farmers, when available, kept breeding bucks in the herds at all times and exercised no control over mating. The main sources of fodder were lopped tree leaves, shrubs, harvested crop residues and local weeds on the banks of dry and wetlands. The mean kid and adult mortality rates were 25.8 and 1.2% respectively. Vaccinations against anthrax, peste des petits ruminants and foot-and-mouth diseases were done in the face of disease outbreaks.
 
Publisher Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture
 
Date 2005-07-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/8163
 
Source The Indian Journal of Animal Sciences; Vol 75, No 7 (2005)
0367-8318
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://epubs.icar.org.in/ejournal/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/8163/3194
 
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